Chico319 said:

I missed this! Anybody have a link to her performance?

On saturday 2nd july 2005 85% of the world watched live 8.

I myself watched 5 hours of the concert online (11pm till 4am). after Madonna performed I could not be bothered waiting for Keith Urban & Mariah to perform, so I fell into a 7 hour sleep. I watched the highlights on 9 tonight & here are my comments

U2: kicking of the London concert wrote another chapter in their long music career. Their performance of Vertigo, Beautiful day & one where heart warming. IM glad Bono didn’t pull off anything weird, as he did 20 yr. ago 10/10

Paul Mcartney: The man that closed London live aid in 1985 opened the show with a Beatles classic. it was rock & roll father & rock & rolls sons (u2) performing on stage to open London's live 8. 9/10

Green day: they rocked the dead walls of Berlin. Billie Armstrong message of hope did shake the city of Berlin. 10/10

Sting: changing the lyrics of "every breath you take" was another performance to put pressure on the G8 leaders 8/10

Pink Floyd: reuniting for the first time in many years, this was another memorable moment. Their reunion will send out a message to other broken band to get back together. 10/10

Annie Lennox: without her eurythmics partner (Dave Stewart) she did pull off a great up beat performance of "sweet dreams". Another show highlight. Female artist 50+ can still put on a great show.

Coldplay: I just wished they performed clock Or speed of sound, but nether the less they still kicked butt. seeing Chris martin daughter in the crowd may influence Apple to become a star, 9/10

Youssou N'Dour & Dido. Another show stopping performance. Im glad they had someone from Africa performing in London. 8/10

Robbie Williams: His kick arse performance will influence American listener they want him back in their charts. Maybe in 2 years time Robbie can pull off an album like the Joshua Tree & gain his first Grammy. 10/10

Madonna: In 85 U2 stole the show with Sunday bloody Sunday & bad, well Madonna stole the show with "like a prayer", "ray of light" & "music". Singing with Birham Woldu, was another memorable part of live 8. 10 (+1=11)/10

REM: Another memorable performance. everyone in hyde park was singing to "everybody hurts" 10/10

Mariah: unfortunately I didn’t see her performance so ill wait till I see it online till I give her a review

Elton john: he has still got talent at age 58. his gymnastic on the piano was funny as hell 8/10

Snoop dogg. Snopp really did pull it off. It would be better if Justin could join him for sign but neither the less unavaliblity occures more than once

Will Smith: he did a great job hosting the Philly concert. But performing some of his hits with DJ jazzy Jeff made it even better. It was nice to see my rap idol Live online 10/10

Bon Jovi: Their performance of "living on a prayer" & "its my life" were bloody fantastic. Everytime they sing their signature song they kick arse. 10/10

Keith Urban: one of 3 aussie performing at live 8. It was another rocking performance. Aussie artist kick arse outside of OZ. 10/10!

Black Eyed Peas: they got Philly started. I predicted they would sing where is the love & don’t phunk with my heart/ 10/10

Dave Matthews Band: although I have never been a fan of his music, Ill say he made Philly rocking 7/10

Andrea : The prayer was another show stopper. Just became a man is blind it doesn’t mean he cant sing. 9/10

Tina & Craig David: The best duo of the Paris concert 10/10


Brian Wilson: although he is 62, Brian can still sing like he did in the 60's 8/10

Faith Hill: "piece of my heart" classic was kick arse. she should have sang it with her hubby Tim 9/10

Brian Adam: He rocked Toronto like he has been rocking for the past 23 years. 9/10

My final word:

Madonna performance of "like a prayer" was a show stopper, just like U2's "Sunday bloody Sunday" at the original live aid.

I hope that the G8 leaders will drop the debit. I signed the petition myself.

I urge you all to sign the petiton so the G8 leaders will make poverty history

marto said:

Thanks for the in-depth review!


I was getting a bit fed up of all the madonna-centric posts here - There were, as you highlight, lots of great acts on all day, all over the World.

Ellie said:

Of course both massage their ego's, 70% of the people performing at Live8 were probably doing exactly the same, it comes with the territory, however unlike Robbie, she has more sides to her. Robbie is all about the ego, he's a great performer, take nothing away from him, but what else does he do????? You could take the stuff off his last album (his 4th or 5th or something), and put it on his first and hear NO difference. Not sure if thats a criticism, but for me it just shows no progression, and indicates he doesnt really give a shit. Doesnt want to take a chance, just make nice pleasant inoffensive pop music that'll keep that ego pumped.

As for your comment about madonna fans , you're right there are lots of sycophants out there who fail to distinguish between her good and her bad stuff, I however am not one of them. Ive already said i think her performance was pretty average, I personally believe madonnas live act is best experienced at her own shows, where its about more than just the vocal performance (as lets face it, she aint never gonna win any contests there). I saw her live last year and she blew me away in exactly the same way Prince did, or Bowie did, or REM have.

CrozzaUK said:

Can we not all just agree to disagree over Madonna and move on to something else about Live 8 please?!

JonSnow said:

So, whaddya recommend I wear, then....?

rocknrolldave said:

OK, just having my two penneth. Ill give a run down of my thoughts.

Annie Lennox: - Magnificent performance. Great voice, great stage persona. Excellent. Her performance of Why was mesmorising..

Scissor Sisters - Brilliant. I love everything they do anyway, but no one looks like they're having a better time when performing than they do. Great new song as well.

REM - Another great performance, Michael Stipes voice seemed to be having a hard day though - i saw them a few weeks ago and his voice sounde dmuch better than this. Looked like they really enjoyed it. They have the perfect stadium songs..

U2 - Great performance.Pastmasters at this kind of thing. Played my 2 favourite songs in One and Beautiful Day.

Coldplay - good - nice little nod to "The Quo" on In my Place.

Paul McCartney - Helter Skelter - i think i tripped out at that point. Absolutely blinding performance of that. He may be ancient, but he still rocked that one. Didnt like the way he went straight into the coda of Hey Jude - what they didnt have 3 mins to do the first bit????

Pink Floyd - Sounded perfect, i think an earlier slot would have been better for their set though. Kind of mellowed things out too much.

Sting - Great performance. I cant believe his voice is as good as it was 20 years ago.

Robbie - He knows exactly how to work a crowd, and who can resist a singalong to Angels. He's still a jumped up show off though.

Mariah Carey - you get a lot of her for your money dont you! Couldnt quite believe that dress, the stylist should be shot. She sounded great though.

All in all i thought the Live8 concerts were excellent. The lineups could have done with some fine tuning, and i cant believe some people didnt play. Bowie, The Rolling Sones, Prince??? However I dont think a single person could ahve come away from this day not being more aware of the cause, and not having felt the magnitude of the situation.
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Slash said:

Slash ROCKED

EarthAirFireWater said:

He did indeed.

I wouldn't say VR were great, but they were OK.


I much prefer early GnR stuff, but hey, good to see the master in action again!

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The Pink Floyed reunion was pretty great!

I think Ashcrofts Perdformance with Coldplay was one of the greatest songs performed.

Pink Floyd - of course. But did Gilmour grinned 2 Mason when Waters began 2 sing ...erm....with a slightly broken voice?

Madonna ...sometimes sounded like a gouvernante (right germish?) or a nanny.. ("COME ON!!!!" )

Yeah and the former Libertines singer (whatwashisname??) ...wasn't he just a lil bit 2 stoned?? Or just 2 cool?

Saint Bob's performance of course - very symphatic - I nearly cried

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Pink Floyd - Fantastic!
Sir Paul with U2 - Fantastic!

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i don't mean to rain on any of you guys parade but what i wanna know is will any of the africans that they are giving awareness to benefit any kind of monetary help? just wondering. if this is true the point of it makes my stomach turn.

Madonna and others should have been challenged to donate half of their earnings to help in the relief effort. See if they jump for that one.

I heard Madonna refused to sing with the African child at first. Grr.

2freaky4church1 said:

I always knew she was a greedy uncarrying muthafucka.

some people r just thick, the whole point of LIVE 8 is not 2 donate money but
2 come up with a long term solution..read: FAIR TRADE, erase debts that
prevent economy growth 4 third world territories (not just Africa)..etc.. .
Some filthy rich celebrity donating all their money isn't gonna resolve the
disgusting disproportion in wealth... .

"don't give them fishes, teach them how 2 fish.."
- Giuseppe Esposito.

Martinelli said:

no its not gonna solve everything but it will help. money does buy food and other necessities or do we all just live off of love i'm not sure. i know i don't. celebraties prancing arounding showing they care is not gonna help. everybody knows the hardships that parts of africa has gone through, so awareness aint shit if you don't put your money where your mouth is.

brownsugar said:

Tell'em Brownsugar! People need to practice what they preach instead of faking the funk .

Hotlegs said:

hey girl! it was also noted that the stars recieved 'goodie bags' so you know they got all kinds of expensive stuff to do the show. stuff they can buy themselves. as far as the africans, i don't know of any human that can eat a dvd player, so how does this help them?





okay carry on back on...

I don't think a beautiful initiative like live 8 deserves
the cynicism it's getting from some people..the whole point wasn't just 'awearness' in the sense of 'poor africans, show them ur love..'
but 2 put pressure on the G8 summit 2moro 2 make a change. It was
an act of politics. That's been clear from the start. & who's better 2 make
that point, than those people enjoying the worlds attention.

Donating money, that whole caritas attitude is what's keeping.
the continent in a rut. It's time 4 a 'structure' that enables economic
independance & strenght... .

Martinelli said:

there's a difference between cynicism and reality. this here is reality. although its a nice gesture and i'm sure the music was mindblowing, the reality of it is that its not gonna feed one person. i just don't see how singing and dancing is gonna put pressure on them. this ain't no mentos commercial now. you gotta put in footwork serious political foot work like boycotting or something like that.

i don't know. i just don't think its right. just my opinion.

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I get ur point. But, i want 2 believe the idea that things can & will b
mobilized 'cuz an event such as live 8 puts it so strongly on the agenda...
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Martinelli said:

well we have yet to see. i hope something like this works. hopefully its not as shallow as i think.

i'm a sucker for reunions. I'm FINALLY watching pink floyd at live 8 for the first time and i'm in tears....I LOVE THEM! AAAAAhhhhh...what a performance.